Preferences
Note: The buttons at the top and bottom of the screen are
common to all the preference screens.
- The top row contains the preference categories:-
- General - including confirm logout and whether or not
the welcome screen should be displayed.
- Display - (this screen)
- Compose - includes settings for personal name and
whether a signature is included or not.
- Extra Compose - use of the sent-mail folder,
the size of the text area for the body part and
the spell check language.
- Folder - options concerned with the use of, and
actions on, mail folders.
- The bottom row controls the duration of the changes:-
- Cancel immediately cancels any edits
- Change for this session applies only to the current
session.
- Change for this and future sessions applies for
each session until the change is altered.
You are returned to the Account Management screen after selecting
any of the choices.
Display Preferences
When you first enter the screen it will look like this:-
Preferences
The individual preferences
In the screen above the Webmail default preferences are shown.
- Use icons controls the use of icons and text for
links and navigation.
If this option is unselected then only text is used.
This has additional effects on certain pages.
For example in the mail folder list screen the single column
(envelope icon) that indicates
the status of a message is replaced by three columns
D (marked if message deleted), N (showing
N for a new message or O for a read message)
A (marked if message answered).
- Duplicate icons below message controls whether a duplicate
of the common toolbar (the icons/text appearing at the top
of every screen) should appear below messages when they
are being viewed.
- Display text/html sections inline. Many messages
have text and HTML parts. If this option is unchecked then, when
messages have a Content-Type: text/html header and
the HTML section is selected, the raw HTML is shown instead
of it being rendered (presented formatted).
- Display text/* sections starting <html> inline.
Some messages are in HTML but do not have the correct (or any)
Content-Type headers.
These are frequently spam messages.
If this option is unchecked these messages are displayed as
raw HTML instead of being rendered.
- Preserve MIME type when downloading attachments controls
whether attachments where the type can be handled by the
browser (for example images in GIF or JPEG format)
are displayed in the browser when the attachment is
selected. When the option is checked an attachment of a type
the browser can handle is displayed when selected, otherwise
the browser's "Save As..." dialogue appears allowing
you to save the attachment to your local system for later
processing.
If the option is unchecked then selecting any attachment
will bring up the browser's "Save As..." dialogue.
- Default folder sort mode affects the way all mail folders are
sorted and thus presented. The default is Arrival - messages
are presented in the order they arrive in the mail folder. There is
a wide range of alternatives, including Date, From
and Subject.
It is also possible to change the sort order of the current folder in
the Mailboxes screen.
- Messages per page controls the number of messages listed
per screen in the message list screen.
- Addressbook entries per page controls the number of addresses
listed per screen in the main addressbook screen.
- Alt Addresses - a comma-separated list of alternative
addresses that you use to send email. This controls what is shown
in the From column of the message list screen. Messages
from any of your defined addresses will show who they are
to rather than who they are from.